Sky Stories

Brin Schoellkopf (1997, Vermont) is a queer performance and visual artist based in Montréal (Tio’tia:ke), with a focus in contemporary circus and dance. In 2018 they graduated from l’École National de Cirque, and pursued a career as a performer and creator, working with pronounced companies such as The 7 Fingers, Cirque du Soleil, and Water for Elephants on Broadway. Brin is also a co-founding artistic director of People Watching, a performing art collective that blends the mediums of circus, dance and physical theater.

Alongside their career in the performing arts, Brin’s work has simultaneously filtered into filmmaking and photography, often using the body as a tool to focus on intimate forms of expression and abstract storytelling. The cross blending of these mediums has had a significant impact on their approach to creation and their ability to experiment with the essential dynamic between subject and viewer. Brin aspires to transition into more post-disciplinary work, and give focus to environments that are queering our culture.

Claire Marie Mannle is a partner and parent who lives on Gayogo̱hó:nǫʼ land (Central New York). Claire holds an MFA in Ensemble-based Physical Theater from the Dell’Arte International School of Physical Theater and a BA in Theater and French Studies from Smith College. She has directed, taught, and performed across the US and abroad.

Claire is interested in telling new stories in old ways and old stories in new ways. When she is not in rehearsal, she loves foraging, hiking, gardening, playing with dogs, and making children laugh.

Stephen St. Francis Decky is a multimedia artist and writer whose work has appeared in an array of festivals, collections, and museums, including The New Britain Museum of American Art and The Museum of Fine Arts, Nagoya, Japan. As a projection and video designer, he has worked on operas, musicals, and video installations with Mountain Time Arts in Bozeman, Montana, IlluminArts Miami, and Beth Morrison Projects, along with many other arts organizations. Stephen has taught Animation and Film classes at several schools, including Ithaca College and Tufts University, and his films have screened at festivals internationally, including the Camden International Film Festival and the VOID International Animation Film Festival in Copenhagen, Denmark. His first novel—Werewolf Movie —will be published this Fall by Frayed Edge Press.

Sara Gosses designs lighting for live performance, visual displays, and anything that connects people, pulls on their heart strings, or awakens awe. Sara loves new work and has lit over 40 world premiers and new adaptations at venues including the Clark Theater at Lincoln Center, MoMA PS1, HERE Arts Center, Studebaker Theater, and houses on Governors Island. Sara is a reoccurring designer with Parallel Exit, Circus Smirkis, and Saks Fifth Avenue.

Sara’s work as an assistant designer has given her the opportunity to work at many theatre companies leading the way in American theatre including, but not limited to The Public Theater, Vineyard Theatre, Steppenwolf Theatre Company, Court Theatre, New York Theatre Workshop, and The Geffen Playhouse.

Sara is currently an Assistant Professor at Ithaca College.

Sara received her MFA in Stage Design at Northwestern University and her BA from Hope College.

Visit www.SaraGosses.com.

Rosalina Maassen Rosa is a Wells College alum, who is super grateful to continue to be working on Cherry Arts productions. Recent works include Rosa and Blanca and La Cerise Noire. Rosa can also be found at The Hangar just up the street!